Bug#748562: overkill?

["Barak A. Pearlmutter" <barak@cs.nuim.ie>]

Instead of writing this execpermfix thing in C, I'd do it
as a one-liner in shell.

  find FILES-AND-DIRECTORIES \
    -type f \
    -execdir sh -c 'file --brief "$1" | grep -q executable' -- '{}' \; \
    -print0 \
  | xargs -0 chmod --verbose +x

Works for me!

(The contortions in the middle are to make sure filenames containing
whitespace, literal single or double quotes, etc, are handled
correctly.)

					Cheers,

					--Barak.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter
 Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
 http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/